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Here’s a closer view of the ring light

Scarodactyl, I had bought a ring light with a plastic 48mm ring, that kept popping off when I tried to screw it in place. But I hadn’t tried to wrestle it into place until I read your last post. I was worried about damaging my scope. But having heard that you used “a little effort” to attach what so...

apochronaut wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:02 am

That's a good start. How does the .5X barlow fit into the picture?

Oops. I posted that in the wrong thread. Nothing to do with the Barlow. My bad.

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Scarodactyl, I had bought a ring light with a plastic 48mm ring, that kept popping off when I tried to screw it in place. But I hadn’t tried to wrestle it into place until I read your last post. I was worried about damaging my scope. But having heard that you used “a little effort” to attach what so...

I have gotten threads down to 0.5mm pitch to work with 3d printing (for a Nikon trinoc head). They jst have to be dialled in, and internal threads have to be oversized a bit since they print tight. Interesting. Do you print your own 3D stuff, or do you commission somebody else to do it? On another ...

Hi all, I’m looking for an 0.5 Barlow lens for my American Optical 569 Starzoom 0.7-3 scope.

Scarodactyl, Thank you. I have a ring light I got from AmScope, so I only need the adaptor ring. Would you be willing to sell me that rusted out lens you mentioned? I do live in the US. (I wrote a PM about this, but it's been sitting for hours in my Outbox, so I don't know whether it'll send or not.)

I actually have a roached 577s which I'd love to have out of my way. It is...extremely roached though, something corroded the hell out of it. I am too much of a newb to parse some of what you wrote. I don’t know what a 577s is or whether a corroded one would work for my purposes. But Apochronaut se...

Thanks Apochronaut. The piece I found online is from a company. I don’t know whether we are supposed to refrain from mentioning companies or linking to product pages. If it’s allowed, I can share the name of the company and/or the link to the product page. I like your idea of making one myself from ...

I am about to get an American Optical stereo 0.7 to 3 zoom 569 microscope. I’d like to be able to attach a ring illuminator to it. So I need an adapter that would enable me to do this. I found an adapter online for $60, which seems a bit much for a small plastic ring. Does anybody happen to have one...

Thank you, BramHuntingNematodes and Apochronaut. I should get my scope tomorrow. Very excited!

I haven’t gotten it in the mail yet, but I recently purchased an American Optical 569 Stereo star zoom microscope on a boom arm. I’ve been very excited about this. I just realized, though, that it doesn’t come with a light source! :( I will be using it to prep fossils I find. These typically span fr...

I just became a member of this forum. I am an amateur fossil collector. I recently ordered a used American optical 569 stereo zoom microscope to help me with my fossil cleaning and preparation. I have not yet received it in the mail, and I’m sure I will have some questions about the proper way to us...